Discuss the role of transportation in the Industrial Age
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students should be able to express an understanding of the vast impact of the locomotive and the railways, which began in earnest after George Stephenson's locomotive, the Rocket won a competition for the new Manchester-Liverpool line by traveling at a top speed of twenty-nine miles per hour over thirty-five miles. Within a dozen years, virtually all of Europe's major cities had been linked by rail, which transported both goods ad workers vast distances in less time than ever before. The steamship had a similar effect on the seas, making wooden ships obsolete and paving the way for transcontinental travel and trade. Roads were also constructed out of new materials, and canals widened the reach of ships into the interior of Russia and the United States.
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a. The Great Lakes b. The Great Salt Lake c. A mineral-rich desert d. Thousands of shallow depressions which formed lakes e. The Grand Canyon
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A) Pennsylvania B) New York C) Virginia D) Carolina